Comment on Tailscale difficulties

• pirateMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I may be (probably am) worrying too much about this, but doesn’t that remove much of the benefit of running services in containers? My understanding is that one benefit of containerization is so that if one service is somehow compromised, the others remain isolated, but running the service that allows you inside on bare metal gives single point access to the drives that those other services rely on, and that’s from the most likely point someone could get into your network. Alternatively, if Tailscale is containerized and someone gets in, they have access to the other services’ front ends but not the data they rely on since Tailscale itself doesn’t have that access.

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  • lankydryness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You could be right. I am not a pro so I don’t really want to speak on the best practice approach. Really the only reason I containerize my services is the ease-of-deployment and the ease of potential re-deployment if my server did crash.

    I personally am not too stressed about bad actors, being as this is a hobby server and the payout for a bad actor would be pretty low.

    But your point does make sense to me.

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